Berkeley Borehole Network

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"Data for this study come from the Berkeley Digital Seismic Network (BDSN), doi:10.7932/BDSN, operated by the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, which is archived at the Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC), doi: 10.7932/NCEDC."

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The Berkeley Borehole Network is composed of stations from two experiments: the mini-Plate Boundary observatory and the Northern Hayward Fault Network

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mini-PBO

A collaborative effort of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at Menlo Park, the Department of
Terrestrial Magnetism at Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW),
and the IGPP at UC San Diego (UCSD), mini-PBO augments existing
infrastructure in central California to form an integrated pilot
system of instrumentation for the study of plate boundary
deformation, with special emphasis on its relation to earthquakes.

The borehole component is focused on the San Francisco Bay area,
and augments existing instrumentation along the Hayward and San
Andreas faults with up to 8 sites with borehole tensor strainmeters
and seismometers, downhole pore pressure and tilt sensors, and
geodetic GPS receivers.

NHFN

Operated by the Berkeley Seismological laboratory, the NHFN is an array
of borehole instrumentation deployed in the San Francisco Bay Area, with
the goal of monitoring microseismicity on the Hayward fault.